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The Book of Lies | 
 enlarge | Author: Brad Meltzer
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 8832
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 044657788X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446577885
ASIN: 044657788X
Publication Date: September 2, 2008
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Product Description
Brad Meltzer--author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Fate--returns with his most thrilling and emotionally powerful novel to date.
In Chapter Four of the Bible, Cain kills Abel. It is the world's most famous murder. But the Bible is silent about one key detail: the weapon Cain used to kill his brother. That weapon is still lost to history.
In 1932, Mitchell Siegel was killed by three gunshots to his chest. While mourning, his son dreamed of a bulletproof man and created the world's greatest hero: Superman. And like Cain's murder weapon, the gun used in this unsolved murder has never been found.
Until now.
Today in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Cal Harper comes face-to-face with his family's greatest secret: his long-lost father, who's been shot with a gun that traces back to Mitchell Siegel's 1932 murder. But before Cal can ask a single question, he and his father are attacked by a ruthless killer tattooed with the anicent markings of Cain. And so begins the chase for the world's first murder weapon.
What does Cain, history's greatest villain, have to do with Superman, the world's greatest hero? And what do two murders, committed thousands of years apart, have in common? This is the mystery at the heart of Brad Meltzer's riveting and utterly intriguing new thriller
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 Much Ado about Nothing January 1, 2009
This story had a lot of action and thus held my attention to the bitter end--which was the most disappointing ending! It truly was a yawning, "who cares?" conclusion.
It reminds me of Barmecide's feast where he is served big covered platters of . . . nothing. Promises, promises.
Additionally the story didn't add up and the characters' unusual traits (such as the main guy's white hair) went pretty much unexplained. The description of Naomi in cheap suits with dyed brown hair was pretty distracting--what's wrong with attractive people? And how did Naomi know to meet them at the Superman museum?!?
I gave it two stars because it did rope me in, but it will be the 1st and last Meltzer novel I read. Too bad.
 Super December 27, 2008
Brad Meltzer's latest novel, The Book of Lies, takes readers on a somewhat convulted journey from Cleveland to the biblical story of Cain and Abel, with lots of work in the middle centered on the relationship between fathers and sons. Protagonist Cal Harper is a former government agent and current advocate for the homeless. One night he encounters a homeless man who turns out to be his estranged father, Lloyd. Before we know it, they're on a journey to Cleveland to the former home of Jerry Seigel, the creator of Superman, whose father was killed when Jerry was a boy. They're searching for a missing book, The Book of Lies, which may have the answer to what weapon Cain used to kill Abel, and what might have been the genesis of the Superman comic. With a nod to Dan Brown and the Da Vinci code genre, The Book of Lies provides a few hours of entertainment for those readers who can leap across the many chasms in the plot.
Rating: Three-star (Recommended)
 Great book if you learn to keep your mind open. December 22, 2008
I thought this book was excellent. It kept me up late in the night wanting more. I had to force myself to stop reading so I could get a decent amount of sleep for the next day.
If you love National Treasure type situations, then this book is definitely one for you to read. It's excellent.
Well Imagined... December 16, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Book of Lies by bestselling author Brad Meltzer is a fantastical tale that combines a DaVinci Code-like mystery with an Indiana Jones-like adventure. The author blends the age old Biblical mystery surrounding Cain's curse and/or his "mark" and the first murder weapon (all of which are unnamed in the Bible) with a modern myth surrounding the unsolved murder of Jerry Siegel's father (the creator of Superman).
At the heart of the story is a son whose life is interrupted at age nine by the accidental death of his bi-polar mother at the hands of his ill-tempered father. The father is imprisoned and offers no contact with the child. Nineteen years pass when on a seemingly random call to rescue a homeless man, father and son are haphazardly reunited, and the roller coaster ride begins. The father has been shot; they whisk him away to a hospital where suspicious characters emerge. In the span of a few pages, our "heroes" are afoot -- ducking bullets and alligators in the Florida swamps, running for their lives to avoid murder charges of a federal agent, and following a myriad of clues which lead to Cleveland, Ohio in an effort to solve the mystery and clear their names -- all while the police, a customs agent, and an evil, psychotic, Hemlock-wielding henchman (who has an equally vicious dog) are in hot pursuit.
The results are a little overreaching at times -- cliffhanger endings at the end of each chapter, too many coincidences to the point that I lost count, and a host of cardboard, melodramatic characters are used to buoy and move the story. However, if you can keep an open mind and have a love of suspense, I think you'll be moderately entertained with this fairly easy read.
Reviewed by Phyllis
APOOO BookClub
the book of lies December 8, 2008
after reading all of brad meltzer's previous books, this one was very disappointing. It had no plot, a ridiculous story line and was not worth the effort.It was a chore to read the entire book. If you haven't bought this book yet, don't. If you have, give it away.it was not a mystery and certainly not a thriller. It was a disappointment.
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